Hi all. If you are planning a wine event and need a bunch of decanters, Ikea has an amazing deal on a 34 ounce glass carafe for only $1.49 plus tax. Although it’s not great for aeration of a wine, it sure does do the trick if you want to have a bunch of wine in decanters to do a blind or half blind tasting with masking taped numbers noted on the decanter. I have a bunch of them.
You don’t even need to waste time and drive to Ikea, as delivery is a flat rate of $9.99. So, for just under 30 bucks you can have 12 decanters delivered to your door step.
Those will definitely come in handy around the holidays when it seems we have lots of wine tastings/flights and my wife get’s tired of continuously washing glasses. Will have to pick some up.
You just beat me posting this lol. I bought 6 to do a blind tasting after I saw them being used at Ansonia Wines (Newton MA). Cost me double because I was too lazy to drive an hour to Ikea and had them shipped.
Quite serviceable, and you can just throw them in the dishwasher. And yes, they’d make excellent flower vases!
They have a surprisingly nice decanter as well. They are a bit pricier in the us ($13 vs the £8 each I paid for them here in the UK). They offer quite a bit more surface area than the carafe referenced above. I liked them enough that I’ve got 3 of them.